Our Design Divas, along with our special April guest designer, are all ready for next week's New Release Celebration. It all starts Thursday, April 5at 8:00 AM EST right here on this blog, with our New Release Blog Hop. It will be full of wonderful inspiration from the designers!

And all of that fun will be followed by our New Release Party over in our member company forums on Splitcoaststampers, beginning at 8:00 PM EST. We'll have challenges, fellowship and chit-chat, full reveals of all the stamp sets...and of course we'll wrap it up by making the stamps available for purchase in the store! Mark your calendars, and make plans to join us!

Our Design Divas, along with our special April guest designer, are all ready for next week's New Release Celebration. It all starts Thursday, April 5at 8:00 AM EST right here on this blog, with our New Release Blog Hop. It will be full of wonderful inspiration from the designers!

And all of that fun will be followed by our New Release Party over in our member company forums on Splitcoaststampers, beginning at 8:00 PM EST. We'll have challenges, fellowship and chit-chat, full reveals of all the stamp sets...and of course we'll wrap it up by making the stamps available for purchase in the store! Mark your calendars, and make plans to join us!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Can you believe it's almost April? We are so excited about the upcoming Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps April release, and all the fun things we have in store to share with you! We're kicking off the excitement with the first Sweet Peek of next week's release. Take a look at this pretty image:

~set measures 4"x4"

~illustrated by Korin Sutherland

~includes one background stamp

~price: $11

Our Design Divas, along with our special April guest designer, are all ready for this week's New Release Celebration. It all starts this Thursday, April 5at 8:00 AM EST right here on this blog, with our New Release Blog Hop. It will be full of wonderful inspiration from the designers!

And all of that fun will be followed by our New Release Party over in our member company forums on Splitcoaststampers, beginning at 8:00 PM EST. We'll have challenges, fellowship and chit-chat, full reveals of all the stamp sets...and of course we'll wrap it up by making the stamps available for purchase in the store! Mark your calendars, and make plans to join us!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

I needed a masculine card this week, which is always difficult for me since men don't appreciate doilies, flowers, and lacey borders! I did finally put aside my doily addiction and heat embossed this Sweet n Sassy starfish, placed him on the boardwalk, (hopefully someone will throw him back!) with some sea glass colored Dew Drops and water inspired embossed teal paper. This scripture verse is perfect for any occasion and I mounted it on Spellbinder labels, the bottom one is the new Floral oval, hopefully not too feminine, it reminded me of waves.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Happy Monday! Amber here with your Sweet 'n Sassy post for the day. This is also my last post as part of the Sweet 'n Sassy Design Team as my term is up! I can't believe the time has gone that fast. But that is what happens when you are having fun creating.

I'm here today with a sweet card using Bethany's Birthday Wish. Colored the image with copics and added Crystal Effects to the balloons.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Hello friends! Don't you just love Spring? We've had such a glorious week here...wonderful weather, birds chirping, flowers blooming, time to create! Spring...what a perfect picture of how God works in our lives. He takes the dormant, barren, winter times of our lives and brings forth new growth and a fresh outlook...Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning! (Psalm 30:5) Praise the Lord!

With Spring in mind, I have two cards to share with you today. The first was inspired by The Sweet Stop sketch. Korin posts a fabulous new sketch over at The Sweet Stop every Saturday. If you are not familiar with The Sweet Stop, hop on over and join the fun!

Hearing the birds chirping outside my crafting place caused me to reach for this adorable clear stamp set by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, "One of a Kind." I followed the sketch for this week at The Sweet Stop. The image is colored with copic markers, cut out, and adhered to an oval nestie sponged with some clouds. The colors were inspired by Bridget's "Hump Day" challenge on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Forum at SCS which was to use aqua and red. My aqua was more turquoise, but I really liked this combination...it's so cheerful! The patterned paper was by My Mind's Eye and was perfect for this color challenge!

The blooming flowers of Spring caused me to reach for this beautiful Spring Tulips Digi image for my second card. This image is also available in a clear stamp set.

Sometimes cropping an image can provide a creative element for a card. Here...the tulip image was cropped for the first layer and left uncolored. The second layer was cropped smaller and colored with copic markers. Everything was layered on some green gingham DP. The sketch for this card was from Arizona Maine for the CAS challenge this past Monday on SCS.

I hope you have a chance to enjoy Spring wherever you are this weekend, and can find some stamping time to capture a bit of Spring!

Friday, March 23, 2012

Hello everyone! This week we have a really beautiful set to share with you for our Friday Feature. It is great not only for Easter cards, but for just about any occasion you can think of! Take a look at Elegant Blessings:

And here is a look at some breathtaking cards from our design team:

WOW!! Such gorgeous, elegant cards! Head over to the store to pick up your set today, and don't forget to share with us what you make! You can upload your work to our gallery over on Splitcoaststampers. We love to see your beautiful cards and projects!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Jessica here with a card to share today using our favorite Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps teddy bear. I used our new Rhubarb's Birthday Wish for my card and decided to pair him with some summery patterned paper from Echo Park along with our large scallop border die.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hello everyone, Spring is here and there are signs of it everywhere. The forsythias are bright and full on our bush this year...it makes me happy! With new life springing forth in the natural, I cannot help but turn to the Life of Christ within the heart of the believer and my heart is overwhelmed with gratitude. My card declares what I feel in my spirit as I look around me.

I choseHe Livesfor my card and coupled it with this weeks sketch and colour challenges this week over atSplitcoaststampersSC377 & CC367. This image comes with a variety of six sentiments, all appropriate for the upcoming Easter holiday or they would work for any card declaring your faith. Don't you just love these stamps for that very reason? Inspirational and beautiful all together. Thank you for joining me! Enjoy your day.~ MaryStamps: He LivesPapers: SU dsp, SU CSInks: Copics, memento, versafineAccessories: SU die, Spellbinders, SU Punch

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

While almost everyone seems to be having unseasonably warm weather, my home in the Northwest has been rainy and gray. There is hope though, I got my inspiration for this card from a little guy by my doorstep, calling 'chickadee dee dee', his joy reminded me that Spring is indeed here!

Monday, March 19, 2012

It was Korin's turn to host the sketch challenge last week over on Splitcoaststampers, and she shared a fantastic sketch! I colored up everyone's favorite little bear (this time from the Thoughtful Rhubarb set) and paired him with some yummy My Mind's Eye patterned paper. And of course, a gorgeous Nautical Wheeler doily die.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Did you know that we released new digi images on Friday? The Digi Challenge team celebrated with a Blog Hop full of fabulous inspiration using the new digis. In case you haven't had a chance to see the newest additions, you can check them out below:

I think the warm weather was making me think of a picnic. I put the reds and browns and creams together and ... feeling VERY brave, I even managed to sew zig zags with my sewing machine!!! I am very proud of me! LOL

I'm also thinking of my upcoming anniversary. We'll be celebrating our 30th anniversary this May and one of our favorite dates when we were just getting to know each other was a picnic basket and a hike. I'm thinking of surprising him with a outing just like that (weather permitting) in late May.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Hello! Giovana here with a Vintage card for you. I have to confess that this set "Vintage Postcard" is one of my very favorites :) I love Vintage images and this set is just perfect for all your elegant cards.

For my card I created the card base in Kraft Cardstock. I cut a panel from Ivory CS and die-cut and emboss the bottom edge. I cut a piece of Patterned Paper, this is from Butterfly garden from Pink Paislee, ink all edges and added to the Ivory piece, then added straight stitches.
I stamped the PostCard, For Correspondence and For address only in Vintage Photo distress Ink. The First Class Friend saying was stamped in Walnut Stain Distress Ink as well as the stamp image. It was die-cut using thestamp die.
Finally I added twill ribbon, a crocheted flower and a pink paper flower.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

I am so in love with the Ticket Sentiments set mainly because it is totally flexible!

First, they can be used in so many ways. I immediately envisioned bright movie theater colors - like the big cups barrels of popcorn that I always need to make my movie experience complete! But if you watch this blog you have seen the tickets used on very vintage cards and they are lovely.

Second, there are eight sentiments that can be used in the ticket - from Get Well to Happy Birthday, and All My Love to a simple Thank You!

For today, I went for the bright colors and the "You Are Amazing" sentiment...

I also used various star dies from Sweet 'n Sassy - the Hearts and Stars Scallop Border die and the Stars Die Set. The set comes with four stars and I have kept them attached to each other, mainly so I don't lose any, but I also like the scenes that I can create with all of the stars!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

DJ Rants here, guest designer this month. Wood print designer paper has become popular lately and I really wanted to have it as a background fence for my morning glories. Now I'm the type of girl who wears vintage jewelry and a flowered blouse with my cowgirl boots and jeans, so I added a more elegant background, glittery flourish, seam binding ribbon, and jewels to balance out the country style wood dp and twine.

The front is decorated with designer paper from Victoria Gardens Collection by Echo Park, satin ribbon, Baker's Twine, and a hand-made felt flower. The leaves were punched with a Martha Stewart punch, the border punch is from Fiskars. I also used some pearls and added stitching to the top edge of the DP. The magnets for the closure are from Basic Gray.

For the 3-3/4" x 4-3/8" note cards, I just layered all the pretty images with SU! Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride, and Crumb Cake inks. On 2 of the cards, I used vellum. Stamped Friendship Script on the pieces with Crumb Cake ink... then sponged and distressed the edges. I used Tim Holtz mini staples to secure the vellum to the card. I did add tiny pieces of double sided tape here and there to make sure the edges were secured.

I also used Baker's Twine and pearls to decorate my set.

Hope you give this a try and surprise someone with this lovely set. There will be a tutorial coming on the case itself on our SplitCoast Member Forum at the end of March, so keep an eye out for it.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Welcome to the weekend! Anyone have any exciting plans for today? Today is my oldest's birthday and we'll be celebrating eight wonderful years!! Can't believe he is already eight! Goodness, the time goes by quickly!!

Well before I head off to eat cake, let's take a peek at today's card that features the Seeing Spots stamp set. This is such a versatile set, with images that are perfect for all kinds of events and even ones that can be used for backgrounds! There are even a boatload of sentiments too!

One of my favorite images, no surprise, is the butterfly! For this card I stamped three butterflies in three opposite colors and used a 1" punch to cut them out. I also used tiny pearls as bodies and attached them to the card with foam tape. The paper at the bottom of the card is from We R Memory Keepers and the newsprint is from Stampin' Up! Ribbon is from Papertrey and the button is a fun wooden one that I found at Michael's for a bit 'ol dollar!

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